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Home » Roads and Highways » North America Roads and Highways » United States Roads and Highways » Delaware Roads and Highways » Delaware Route 1 Delaware Route 1 in Highways Bridges Resource Directory |
Delaware Route 1, the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway, is a 51milelong limited access highway built to full Interstate standards, and it parallels US13, between US13 and Dover Air Force Base south of Dover, and I95 in northern Delaware. The last section opened to traffic on May 19, 2003, a 8.9milelong section south of Odessa. The northern 14 of the highway is tollfree, and the southern 34 of the highway is tolled. The highway includes the signature cablestayed bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware C & D Canal near the town of St. Georges. The total cost of the new highway was almost $900 million, and that includes the costs of engineering, rightofway, and construction. The highway has 4 lanes between I95 and US13 at Tybouts Corner, and it has 6 lanes between US13 at Tybouts Corner and just south of the C & D Canal Bridge, and 4 lanes south of there to Dover Air Force Base, with a 4lane connector from DE1 to US13 south of Dover. The highways planning, design, construction and maintenance is administered by the Delaware Department of Transportation DelDOT.
Website: http://www.pennways.com/DE-1_KWVM_Hwy.html
